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Compatible with both Windows® and Macintosh®, the Epson Perfection 2480Photo provides the ideal fit for any home setting. Offering remarkable versatilityand detail in one affordable solution, it’s the perfect choice for bringing fadedmemories to life and sharing new ones with family and friends.
1 SLOW! SLOW! read others who agree
Had it for two days of misery.
1st s/ware CD didn't work, called Epson on MY DIME !!
5-7 days to get one, took 3 hrs to install the 2nd one.
Listen Up : THREE and ONE-HALF minutes to scan/copy a simple 100 word B&W text doc ...I flat out couldn't believe it.
Thought it was scanning at high DPI for photo .. after 30 min. search, it was set at 150 dpi.
I had two average HP scanners for 7-8 yrs [ 5P & 5200C ] have the nice PaperPort scanning suite ... know my scanners ... never heard of anything soooo sloooowww. Never scanned a Color Photo as it went back to the idiots at CompUSA who loved it and highly
recommended it ... never did they actually use or install.
Get a Canon , the #1 digital imager in cameras, copiers.
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2 Good for light use
For a $100 scanner, I didn't expect high quality scans. What I did get out of it was a lot better than I expected. Most of the detail in photographs and documents came out pretty good. Hey, it does photos, slides, negatives, and works great with my Mac. That sold me right there. Not everything is perfect though.
When using the text "interpreter", it has a tendency to turn blemishes (fold lines, scratches) on the paper, into strange text, and unreadable ascii characters. It's not too much of a pain, as it's usually pretty easy to clean up with a text editor.
When doing negatives, it does not reliably scan all the images on the negative. I've had to scan some several times to get the image that I wanted.
This thing is also slow. We're talking slooow here. I haven't used that many scanners, but all the ones I've used have been lightning fast compared to this one. It took 3 and a half minutes just to do a simple document copy (scanner straight to printer).
There are times when a document or photo won't scan completely (the edges are cut off). I can solve this problem most of the time, by putting a colored sheet of paper behind whatever I'm scanning, and edit that part out in photoshop.
On the bright side, I've never had a problem doing slides. I can put three or four photos on the glass, and the scanner will turn them into seperate documents for each. Orientation doesn't matter either, just use the built in software to reorient the picture. (yes, it works on Macs too).
If you're just starting out, and need something inexpensive, for light work, this will satisfy your needs. If you are going to do a lot of scanning, then you'll probably want something speedier.
This isn't the greatest thing in the world, but it satisfies my needs.
3 Slow scanner, good if you don't have a ton to scan
The Epson Perfection 2480 was my third attempt at finding a perfect scanner for my needs. I'm trying to convert all of my childhood, my wife's childhood, and my other family pictures to digital for archiving and family distribution. Some of these pictures are in 35mm color negative, some in positive slides, some in some small format negative, and some in old photos. This scanner only allows you to scan three 35mm negatives per pass, so scanning negatives was tedious and time consuming. Plus the firmware on the scanner was set so that for every image pass the scanner moved back to the stop position before it would move on to the next image, rather than begining where the other ended. So for three negatives it would make six large moves, which seems like excessive wear and may make the life shorter. The software worked great, but in the end I returned this item for the Epson 4180, for the extra $90 you get 12 negatives per pass and it seems to be twice as fast. Worth the extra money if you have boxes to scan like I do!
4 Okay for a CHEAP scanner
Epson was clearly going for features over quality with this scanner. You don't need to get out a ruler to notice that the images produced are distored. Vertical, horizontal, and diagonal lines are all wobbly. On my unit the right inch of the image is noticeably darker than the rest of the image. Colors are inconsistent to, with the center being bluer and the sides begin greener.
Yes, this is only $100, so I wasn't expecting "Perfection", but I was expecting distortions and problems to be limited to things I'd have to measure or see only under magnification. With this scanner, just scanning an invoice shows up the problems without even trying to look for them.
The packaged OCR software worked great the one time I tried it and I could see using this scanner for OCR and in place of a Fax scanner, but if you care about image quality at all, this is not the scanner for you.
5 HORRIBLE!! Horrible! horrible......
It's been many years since I've worked with such an unreliable peice of hardware. Of the 10 times I've tried to use it, it has only functioned properly once. Changing cables, restarting scanner, restaring computer, re-installing software.... nothing. When you really need it to work and it consistently fails leaves you're left feeling very frustrated. Do yourself a favor and pay the extra money to get a scanner that will be reliable. This scanner isn't.
6 Epson 2480 PHOTO
The manufacturer claims this product will install on Windows 2000. Eventually it will, however the installation software fails
to notice that a file it attempts to copy to is in a 'Read only' state. This causes the setup process to fail with a nearly useless error message.
In addition, if you attempt to register the product online the response to the Internet dial up is: "you have reached a number which is disconnected or no longer in service".
One more thing, as you are told to "slide the transportation lock to the unlock position" you are warned "Don't turn the scanner over to access the lock or you may damage the scanner". After that when you attempt to register the product you discover the serial number, they request, is recorded on the bottom of the scanner.
George Ahearn
Los Gatos CA.
7 Good scans but defective CCD
The unit I received appeared to have a defective CCD imaging system. The scan quality was pretty good, but every scan had 2 vertical red lines that went from top to bottom. Couldn't get rid of it no matter what I tried. Unfortunately, have to return to Amazon. Will probably try a different Epson model scanner next time around.
8 Good scanner, but not for film.
This scanner was excellent for scanning pictures and images, but did poorly with 35mm negatives. The color was dull and had a brown tint to it. In comparison to the Canon Lide80, the film scan was terrible. This is a GREAT scanner if you do not wish to scan film.
9 Excellent consumer-grade scanner
I bought this scanner to scan and organize all of my paper photos. I'm very impressed with the quality of the scans, the colors are acurate and the detail is excellent as well. I also tried the negative adapter and it worked great.
The software that comes with the scanner is the best part. You can put a photo in the middle of the scanner, press the scan button on the scanner and it determines the orientation correctly (even if the photo is not perfectly straight). It's as close to "unattended" as you can get; you just have to swap the photos. I use it in combination with Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0 and use the "batch processing" feature to name and save all the scanned photos at once.
This job would be unmanageble on my old scanner, a CanoScan 620U.
I did have a problem with the first unit I bought being defective. I left it plugged in overnight and it was dead in the morning. I was happy enough with the results and low price to buy another one.
